How to increment letters like numbers in PHP?

Question

I would like to write a function that takes in 3 characters and increments it and returns the newly incremented characters as a string.

I know how to increase a sing

Answer 1

I have these methods in c# that you could probably convert to php and modify to suit your needs, I'm not sure Hexavigesimal is the exact name for these though...

#region Hexavigesimal (Excel Column Name to Number)
public static int FromHexavigesimal(this string s)
{
    int i = 0;
    s = s.Reverse();
    for (int p = s.Length - 1; p >= 0; p--)
    {
        char c = s[p];
        i += c.toInt() * (int)Math.Pow(26, p);
    }

    return i;
}

public static string ToHexavigesimal(this int i)
{
    StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();

    while (i > 26)
    {
        int r = i % 26;
        if (r == 0)
        {
            i -= 26;
            s.Insert(0, 'Z');
        }
        else
        {
            s.Insert(0, r.toChar());
        }

        i = i / 26;
    }

    return s.Insert(0, i.toChar()).ToString();
}

public static string Increment(this string s, int offset)
{
    return (s.FromHexavigesimal() + offset).ToHexavigesimal();
}

private static char toChar(this int i)
{
    return (char)(i + 64);
}

private static int toInt(this char c)
{
    return (int)c - 64;
}
#endregion

EDIT

I see by the other answers that in PHP you can use ++ instead, nice!

Answer 2

 <?php 
$values[] = 'B';
$values[] = 'A';
$values[] = 'Z';
foreach($values as $value ){
  if($value == 'Z'){ 
       $value = '-1';
    }
$op = ++$value;
echo $op;
}
?>